Meteorological winter ended yesterday for the Northern Hemisphere. How was yours?

Fairly nondescript in the UK. No severe gales; no really bad snow and just moderate amounts of rain for the bulk of the country. Here's a few stats for this station:-

The mean temp was 5.0°C compared to the 30 year average of 4.6°C. Not as warm as last winter but warmer than 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2012/13.Rainfall was 10.7" compared to 9.65" last winter.Highest temp was 14.3°C on 9 January.Lowest temp was -3.7°C on 3 February.Highest gust was 53mph on 28 January.Wettest day was 0.55" on 2 February.

Who said winter WAS? It is still here! From my Top 10 (since October 2008): 5 min temp were this past month, the same with min avg temp, min apparent, lowest max, min wind chill.

January was also very cold but February set many daily low temp records (since 1941) for our area, the same as for most of the NE USA. The average snow depth for February was 39.3 cm. 204.19 hours of sunshine this February, compared to 242.50 February 2014.

I don't know what the US Met Office equivalent determines to be the start and end of meteorological winter but it's 1 Dec - 28/29 Feb in the UK. This is different to astronomical winter of course. But as we're keeping weather records it makes sense to use the former.

Those are truly awful temperatures especially when you consider how much further south you are than the UK.

-29.7° on 2/16/2015- (-34.3C)-29.6° on 2/20/2015-27.9° on 2/24/2015-27.3° on 2/28/2015-26.8° on 2/12/2014-23.8° on 2/23/2015-22.4° on 1/29/2014-20.9° on 1/28/2014-19.9° on 2/17/2014-19.1° on 2/28/2014

Our Lowest Windchills °F

-29.7° on 2/16/2015 (-34.3C)-29.6° on 2/20/2015-27.9° on 2/24/2015-27.3° on 2/28/2015-26.8° on 2/12/2014-24.3° on 1/7/2014-23.8° on 2/23/2015-22.4° on 1/29/2014-21.7° on 2/15/2015-20.9° on 1/28/2014

Low Apparent Temp °F

-36.7° on 2/16/2015 (-38.2C)-36.6° on 2/20/2015-34.9° on 2/24/2015-34.3° on 2/28/2015-33.8° on 2/12/2014-30.8° on 2/23/2015-29.9° on 1/29/2014-27.9° on 1/28/2014-26.8° on 2/17/2014-26.0° on 2/28/2014

Lowest High Temp °F

0.2° on 1/7/20141.8° on 2/15/2015 (-16.7C)7.0° on 2/19/20157.6° on 1/28/20149.7° on 2/20/20159.8° on 1/22/201410.3° on 1/3/201411.4° on 1/22/201312.0° on 1/23/201312.4° on 1/7/2015

Lowest Average Temp °F

-9.60° on 2/20/2015 (-23.1C)-5.90° on 1/7/2014-5.80° on 2/16/2015-4.40° on 2/15/2015-3.60° on 1/28/2014-3.20° on 1/29/2014-2.70° on 2/19/2015-2.10° on 2/28/2015-1.80° on 2/12/20140.50° on 2/23/2015

Our Lowest Dewpoint °F

-34.7°F on 2/16/2015 (-37.0C)-34.6°F on 2/20/2015-32.4°F on 2/24/2015-32.1°F on 2/28/2015-31.6°F on 2/12/2014-28.0°F on 2/23/2015-27.1°F on 1/29/2014-25.9°F on 1/28/2014-24.4°F on 2/17/2014-23.6°F on 2/28/2014

Plus, we had 85 days during the period Dec. 1st to Feb. 28 with a low below 32°F(0°C) and 65 consecutive days with low below 32°F. If that isn't cold enough, we had 59 days during the period that never got above freezing.

My Noah Reports shows that since we began records four years ago this was the coldest winter we've had.

Insult to injury, we are under a winter storm warning for ice/sleet/freezing rain/snow 'till 7am on Wednesday. Time to break the seal on the bottle of rum.